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COMPLEMENTARY PATHWAYS FOR PEOPLE IN NEED OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

Jean-Christophe Dumont Head of the International Migration Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs OECD

Ressetlement effort needs to be scaled up in the context of large movements of refugees

11 11 9 9 6 13 12 9 11 12 12 13 10 12 12 20 60 80 71 51 66 66 73 67 7 9 7 6 7 7 8 11 20 40 60 80 100 120 Milliers

Resettlement arrivals

Grand Total Other United States Canada Australia

Complementary pathways for people in need of international protection

OECD (2016) International migration following environmental and geopolitical shocks: How can OECD countries respond?, International Migration Outlook OECD

Target group of beneficiaries outside the country Resettlement Alternative general mobility pathways Alternative Humanitarian pathways

Labour migration schemes

• Solely help refugees to access existing labour migration channels

⇒ Competing with the global pool of foreign talents ⇒ Access to information about legal opportunities and supply and demand (matching) ⇒ Help overcome administrative obstacles

• Create incentives for employers to recruit people under

international protection from abroad within the broad parameters

• f labour migration policies

⇒ Provide a preferential treatment (PBS, quota, minimum requirements) ⇒ Lower hiring costs for employers ⇒ Encourage recruitment under ethical recruitment and CSR grounds

• Draw up new labour migration programmes specifically for

refugees

⇒ Bilateral agreements

Three main approaches to facilitating refugee access to labour migration

Private sponsorship schemes

“79. We will consider the expansion of existing humanitarian admission programmes, possible temporary evacuation programmes, including evacuation for medical reasons, flexible arrangements to assist family reunification, private sponsorship for individual refugees and opportunities for labour mobility for refugees, including through private sector partnerships, and for education, such as scholarships and student visas.” “In addition, the Commission encourages Member States to set up private sponsorship schemes allowing private groups

• r civil society organisations to organise and finance

resettlements in accordance with national legislation. To this effect, the Commission has invited EASO to coordinate a pilot project on private sponsorship schemes with interested Member States.”

NY declaration 2016 & State of the Union 2017

Canadian resettlement programmes

• Different types of sponsors

– Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs) – Group of Five (G5) – Community Sponsors

• Favourable labour market outcomes
• The global refugee sponsorship initiative

The Canadian model for private sponsorship

Assessing the potential

• f complementary

pathways

Potential and feasibility

• Protection
• How many people does the policy protect?
• Who receives protection under the policy, who is excluded and why?
• Acceptability
• Economic and social consequences for the host country
• Feasibility
• Administrative capacities and financial resources
• Adaptability of the domestic legal framework

Use of complementary pathways for Syrians in the OECD

• A joint UNHCR-OECD monitoring system

Lessons learnt and policy implications

Effective international cooperation can be taken for granted in case of mass displacements Long term integration

• utcomes / durable solution

Selection, which is a common feature of most migration systems, needs to be rethought in the context of international protection frameworks

For further information: www.oecd.org/migration jean-christophe.dumont@oecd.org

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